Congressman John Kline is reminding students who are seeking nomination into U.S. Service Academies that the deadline for applying through his congressional office is Friday, Oct. 7.
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House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline helped champion bipartisan legislation that passed the U.S. House of Representatives today that would help more Americans enter the workforce with the skills they need to compete for high-skilled, in-demand jobs.
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Minnesota Congressman John Kline issued the following statement today after supporting legislation that passed the U.S. House of Representatives that would hold Iran accountable, as the Obama Administration promised it would. H.R. 5631, the Iran Accountability Act, would apply sanctions on Iran for its terrorism activity, ballistic missile tests, and human rights abuses:
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Minnesota Congressman John Kline, chairman of the Committee on Education and the Workforce, praised House passage of a bipartisan, bicameral agreement to fight the nation’s growing opioid epidemic. The agreement includes a legislative proposal championed by Kline's committee that will strengthen protections for infants born with drug exposure by requiring the Department of Health and Human Services to better ensure states are meeting current child welfare requirements.
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Minnesota Congressman John Kline's House Committee on Education and the Workforce today approved H.R. 5587, the Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act. The bipartisan legislation reauthorizes and reforms the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act to help more Americans enter the workforce with the skills they need to compete for high-skilled, in-demand jobs. The bill passed the committee by a vote of 37-0.
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Minnesota Congressman John Kline hosted Lakeville North graduate Lindsay Hardwick in Washington this week to honor her winning entry in the annual Congressional Art competition. Hardwick won Kline's 2016 district-wide art contest with her painting that innovatively used instant coffee as a medium. Hardwick attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony in Washington and Kline showed her where her painting is currently displayed in the U.S. Capitol.
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Minnesota Congressman John Kline's House Committee on Education and the Workforce held a hearing today to examine the Department of Education’s steps to implement the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). The committee heard from Secretary of Education John B. King, Jr., as well as state and local leaders who echoed members’ concerns regarding the department’s accountability and “supplement, not supplant” proposals.
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House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline -- along with Speaker Paul Ryan and others -- today unveiled a plan to replace ObamaCare and provide every American access to quality, affordable health care. Developed by the Task Force on Health Care Reform, the plan is the latest initiative of A Better Way, a bold policy agenda that will help tackle some of our country’s biggest challenges.
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Minnesota Congressman John Kline’s provision to ensure military commanders have much needed flexibility for our troops to fight Islamist extremists in Afghanistan and the region was included in the National Defense Authorization Act (H.R. 4909) that passed the House last evening with strong bipartisan support. The annual NDAA serves as the policy and budgetary blueprint for the Pentagon. This is the 14th and final national defense bill that Kline, who is retiring at the end of this Congress, helped author.
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"Minnesota Republican Rep. John Kline and former California Rep. George Miller, a Democrat, knew there’d be blowback as architects of a controversial 2014 reform allowing failing pension funds to cut accrued benefits. To their credit, the duo plowed forward with the legislation anyway, recognizing that some hardened problems have no good or easy solutions, and that in such situations, strong leadership means identifying the least bad option." - Star Tribune editorial
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